Toy World

by Cardiacs

Toy World cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Alphabet Business Concern
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Sarah Cutts, Jim Smith, Tim Smith, Mark Cawthra, Max Mayers

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Cardiacs' early cassette-era release 'Toy World' captures the group before its later cult consolidation, already displaying Tim Smith's dense, hyperactive writing. The album's rough recording and abrupt structural shifts foreshadow the band's distinctive fusion of punk energy, prog complexity, and theatrical eccentricity.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, lo-fi, progressive, complex, uncommon-time-signatures, experimental, melodic, theatrical, dynamic, genre-blending

Tracklist

  1. Aukamacic
  2. Icky Qualms
  3. Over + Over + Over + Over
  4. Dead Mouse
  5. A Big Noise In A Toy World
  6. Trademark
  7. Scratching Crawling Scrawling
  8. As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea
  9. Is This The Life?
  10. Nurses Whispering Verses
  11. A Time For Rejoicing

Credits

  • Jim Smith - bass, voice, lyrics by
  • Tim Smith - guitar, keyboards, voice, lyrics by, music by
  • Max Mayers - keyboards, other [bye bye], music by
  • Sarah Cutts - keyboards, saxophone [sax], clarinet [clarinett], voice, other [hello to]
  • Dominic Luckman - lighting [lights]
  • Tim Quy - sounds [live sound], other [barclaycard]
  • Peter Ivers - music by [uncredited, "someone else"]

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